ASUS B250 Mining Expert MB - 19 Cards!

[QuintLeo]

Are u guys using the included asus b250 software in windows?

My board has never seen Windows.

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[ben-and-jen]

My board has never seen Windows.

I believe that you mentioned that you're using Xubuntu 14.04. How come you choose that version of Linux? Do you just like it or is it somehow better than Ubuntu or other distros?

I'm running asus B250, Ubuntu 16.04, two 1070tis and I'm testing with a RX580, NVidia 390.25 driver, AMD 17.50-511655 driver. ethminer sees the 1070tis and RX580 but I can't get ethminer to mine 1070tis with cuda and mine with the RX580 with opencl. It will mine with 1070tis with cuda all day long

Are you using an old NVidia driver that somehow doesn't conflict with the RX580? Or do you think this is an OS issue / ethminer issue?

Thanks.

[hack4love]

Can I run for example 13 card Rx 570 and 6  gtx 1060 will it work

[hack4love]

I dont use molex

13 amd radeon 570
2x evga g2 1600w (gpu + risers powered directly from vga slots on psu)
Pentium g4560
4gb ram
Win 10

Currently hashing 30.2 mh/s on each gpu.
Power draw from the wall: 1520W 220V

OC directly in claymore
Clocks/volt 1150/0850 2150/0850

2 more rigs coming up this weekend.
It is very stable. Mining for a week without issues.

What you use to run things windows or linux

[remauto1187ma]

Can I run for example 13 card Rx 570 and 6  gtx 1060 will it work

No.  When running all 19 slots on the motherboard 6 HAVE TO BE P106-100 which is the dedicated minor card (Essentially a factory manufactured 1060 made to mine only with no video outputs).  It has to post as a 106 card or you WILL NOT be able to use 19 cards total.

[Bigdrago]

I dont use molex

13 amd radeon 570
2x evga g2 1600w (gpu + risers powered directly from vga slots on psu)
Pentium g4560
4gb ram
Win 10

Currently hashing 30.2 mh/s on each gpu.
Power draw from the wall: 1520W 220V

OC directly in claymore
Clocks/volt 1150/0850 2150/0850

2 more rigs coming up this weekend.
It is very stable. Mining for a week without issues.

What you use to run things windows or linux

Windows

[hack4love]

I dont use molex

13 amd radeon 570
2x evga g2 1600w (gpu + risers powered directly from vga slots on psu)
Pentium g4560
4gb ram
Win 10

Currently hashing 30.2 mh/s on each gpu.
Power draw from the wall: 1520W 220V

OC directly in claymore
Clocks/volt 1150/0850 2150/0850

2 more rigs coming up this weekend.
It is very stable. Mining for a week without issues.

What you use to run things windows or linux

Windows

What drive you using

[Bigdrago]

Cheapest kingston 120gb ssd i could find.

[Boriss]

I dont use molex

13 amd radeon 570
2x evga g2 1600w (gpu + risers powered directly from vga slots on psu)
Pentium g4560
4gb ram
Win 10

Currently hashing 30.2 mh/s on each gpu.
Power draw from the wall: 1520W 220V

OC directly in claymore
Clocks/volt 1150/0850 2150/0850

2 more rigs coming up this weekend.
It is very stable. Mining for a week without issues.

What you use to run things windows or linux

Windows

What drive you using

If you have any old drive at your disposal don't buy SSD, just use whatever you have.
Invest in SSD only if you don't have anything else to use.

[hack4love]

I dont use molex

13 amd radeon 570
2x evga g2 1600w (gpu + risers powered directly from vga slots on psu)
Pentium g4560
4gb ram
Win 10

Currently hashing 30.2 mh/s on each gpu.
Power draw from the wall: 1520W 220V

OC directly in claymore
Clocks/volt 1150/0850 2150/0850

2 more rigs coming up this weekend.
It is very stable. Mining for a week without issues.

What you use to run things windows or linux

Windows

What drive you using

If you have any old drive at your disposal don't buy SSD, just use whatever you have.
Invest in SSD only if you don't have anything else to use.

Sorry for my English
No I mean what  amd driver  you using   aug23 BLOCKCHAIN

I want know what driver can work with 13 card without hashrate Affected

[nitrobg]

I dont use molex

13 amd radeon 570
2x evga g2 1600w (gpu + risers powered directly from vga slots on psu)
Pentium g4560
4gb ram
Win 10

Currently hashing 30.2 mh/s on each gpu.
Power draw from the wall: 1520W 220V

OC directly in claymore
Clocks/volt 1150/0850 2150/0850

2 more rigs coming up this weekend.
It is very stable. Mining for a week without issues.

What you use to run things windows or linux

Windows

What drive you using

If you have any old drive at your disposal don't buy SSD, just use whatever you have.
Invest in SSD only if you don't have anything else to use.

Yeah and spend 2 hours reinstalling drivers. Those old HDDs are unusable, you'd better just buy a cheap flash drive and put any linux mining build on it.

[ben-and-jen]

Yeah and spend 2 hours reinstalling drivers. Those old HDDs are unusable, you'd better just buy a cheap flash drive and put any linux mining build on it.

Yeah, I was using HDD and was getting errors using ethminer and parity. Once I switched to using a SSD, the errors went away.

[Dbrouwers]

I am using a 16GB kingston USB3.0 stick with Hive OS on it and it works great.
The 3 molexes on the MB are not connected, I have powered risers (2 per cable coming from the PSU).

Risers are something fishy, sometimes have to switch either cables or power them from another PSU until everything runs fine.
If they have an issue with power the MB shows multiple slots in red, its just figuring out which one to change PSU then and everything is green again.

[remauto1187ma]

I am using a 16GB kingston USB3.0 stick with Hive OS on it and it works great.
The 3 molexes on the MB are not connected, I have powered risers (2 per cable coming from the PSU).

Risers are something fishy, sometimes have to switch either cables or power them from another PSU until everything runs fine.
If they have an issue with power the MB shows multiple slots in red, its just figuring out which one to change PSU then and everything is green again.

Which version riser are you using? I use strictly 006c ver and oddly have never even gotten a bad one, yet.  I strictly use 120gb ssd, they are $48. I run win 10 Pro, updated to 1709 and Asus bios ver 1001.  The 3 molexes are NOT connected on my m/b.  I have two sticks of 4gb memory pc2133.  Intel G3920 Cpu on Rig1 m/b and G3930 Cpu on Rig2.

[Bigdrago]

I am using a 16GB kingston USB3.0 stick with Hive OS on it and it works great.
The 3 molexes on the MB are not connected, I have powered risers (2 per cable coming from the PSU).

Risers are something fishy, sometimes have to switch either cables or power them from another PSU until everything runs fine.
If they have an issue with power the MB shows multiple slots in red, its just figuring out which one to change PSU then and everything is green again.

Which version riser are you using? I use strictly 006c ver and oddly have never even gotten a bad one, yet.  I strictly use 120gb ssd, they are $48. I run win 10 Pro, updated to 1709 and Asus bios ver 1001.  The 3 molexes are NOT connected on my m/b.  I have two sticks of 4gb memory pc2133.

I use 006C risers.
8pin from psu to 8pin/6+2pin (8pin to gpu and 6pin to riser).
Using 4gb ram pc2400

[Gtcmundialvt]

You is the creator the NixonCoin?

[Bigdrago]

You is the creator the NixonCoin?

Me? Never heard of

[ben-and-jen]

My board has never seen Windows.

I believe that you mentioned that you're using Xubuntu 14.04. How come you choose that version of Linux? Do you just like it or is it somehow better than Ubuntu or other distros?

I'm running asus B250, Ubuntu 16.04, two 1070tis and I'm testing with a RX580, NVidia 390.25 driver, AMD 17.50-511655 driver. ethminer sees the 1070tis and RX580 but I can't get ethminer to mine 1070tis with cuda and mine with the RX580 with opencl. It will mine with 1070tis with cuda all day long Smiley

Are you using an old NVidia driver that somehow doesn't conflict with the RX580? Or do you think this is an OS issue / ethminer issue?

Thanks.

[ben-and-jen]

If AMD only setup, then ethos else simplemining. Do you have time and patience? then install centos7/ubuntu and compile the miners yourself (thats what i do).
I stay away from windows mostly because i am comfortable with linux. Note, you will see a drop of about .5mhz - 1mhz in linux (claymore). But i think you can ignore that.

Have you been able to get centos7/ubuntu to work with a mix of Nvidia and AMD cards with the B250?

[QuintLeo]

My board has never seen Windows.

I believe that you mentioned that you're using Xubuntu 14.04. How come you choose that version of Linux? Do you just like it or is it somehow better than Ubuntu or other distros?

I'm running asus B250, Ubuntu 16.04, two 1070tis and I'm testing with a RX580, NVidia 390.25 driver, AMD 17.50-511655 driver. ethminer sees the 1070tis and RX580 but I can't get ethminer to mine 1070tis with cuda and mine with the RX580 with opencl. It will mine with 1070tis with cuda all day long Smiley

Are you using an old NVidia driver that somehow doesn't conflict with the RX580? Or do you think this is an OS issue / ethminer issue?

Thanks.

XFCE window manager is the main difference from "base" Ubuntu - much easier to work with, MUCH lower overhead than that evil "Trinity" standard Ubuntu window manager (which even Canonical has said that Ubuntu is giving up on or recently MOVED to something else) and makes autostarting programs at boot-up VERY easy.
I won't say "Trinity" was the worst window manager I ever suffered through - but only the UNUSABLE INTERFACE in Windows 8 was noticeably worse.

I don't run mixed rigs any more - flat out does not WORK with anything semi-current on Nvidia drivers (somewhere in the 350 or 360 range seems to be where the "no-opengl-files" option STOPPED WORKING) under LINUX, so you HAVE to run Windows to make it work at all.

Since the board doesn't fit well into the "rack/shelf" infrastructure I'm building up, I'm probably going to end up selling it off sometime semi-soon, when all of the cards that are currently in it get moved to other "standard" riser rigs.